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April 2008
Adham Center graduate shoots inside Guantanamo
Story by Martina Fuchs
Ousama Farag, an Adham Center alumni and currently Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) cameraman / editor, shot a six minute feature with correspondent Bill Gillespie in February 2008 from within the notorious U.S. prison in Guantanamo, home to about 300 alleged Al-Qaeda terrorists.
April 17, 2008
The Art of the Interview:
A documentary masterclass with filmmaker Greg Kelly
Story by Martina Fuchs and Photo by Bassel Sabri
Canadian journalist and filmmaker Greg Kelly conducted a masterclass at the Kamal Adham Center on 28th and 29th of March. The focus –interview techniques and visual storytelling for documentaries.
April 17, 2008
Adham Endowment for AUC Journalism Center; New Digital Journalism Master’s Degree Launched
Story by Martina Fuchs
Cairo (April 1) –The American University in Cairo today announced that the Center for Electronic Journalism is changing its name and launching a new two-year Master’s degree in Television and Digital Journalism.
April 3, 2008
February 2008
Shereen El Feki: Take-off for the new Adham Center science and technology journalism fellow
Story by Martina Fuchs
Shereen El Feki, former Al Jazeera English presenter and healthcare correspondent for The Economist, joined the AUC's Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research this spring term 2008 as the inaugural Journalism Fellow. She arrived with a suitcase full of fresh ideas on how to develop the field of health and science reporting in the Middle East, with a special focus on HIV/AIDS.
February 14, 2008
December 2007
US Public Diplomacy Chief at Adham Center
Just one week before he was appointed as the new U.S. public diplomacy czar, James Glassman stopped by Adham Center as part of a fact-finding tour of the region.
December 12, 2007
The BBC at Adham Center
The head of the BBC’s Arabic service, Hosam el-Sokkari, recently spoke to students in the Electronic Newsgathering class.
December 9, 2007
“No Risk, No Gain:” Arab Star Journalist Yosri Fouda at the AUC
Al Jazeera’s London bureau chief and investigative correspondent Yosri Fouda, a graduate of the Adham Center, spoke at AUC’s Oriental Hall Sunday about “Covering Al Qaeda: Reality and Spin Doctoring” as part of of a week-long visit as distinguished professor.
December 9, 2007
Shaheen Pasha and Yasir Khan Join AUC’s Department of Journalism
Professor Shaheen Pasha, a former CNN and Dow Jones reporter, and Professor Yasir Khan, a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker, joined the Department of Journalism this fall semester 2007 by adding North American journalistic professionalism with a spicy South Asian flavour to the AUC’s melting pot.
December 9, 2007
September 2007
Egyptian Civil Society Project launches
"Mogtamana" Web site
The "Egyptian Civil Society Media project", affiliated to the Center of Electronic Journalism of the American University in Cairo, has launched its portal www.mogtamana.org (and www.egyptcivilsociety.org), which provides full coverage of Egyptian civil society activities in Arabic.
September 26, 2007
July 2007
Knight Fellows commend AUC students' enthusiasm for learning.
With hugely successful graduate and professional courses in documentary film behind him, Knight Fellow Craig Duff is not about to close the door on his AUC students. “This is a conversation that’s only just begun,” he says, encouraging to the last. “Use me as a resource for the rest of your careers,” he tells them. “Keep in touch.”
July 8, 2007
Ten steps to citizen journalism online
A new guide to journalism for bloggers is now available online. It was
written by veteran U.S. journalist and Knight International Fellow Stephen
Franklin, who was based at the Center the first half of this year. A Chicago
Tribune correspondent with extensive Middle East experience, Stephen produced
the guide to help bolster journalistic professionalism on the web, in
between training sessions for several Egyptian news organizations.
July 8, 2007
June 2007
Documentary Film Premiere a Smashing Success
In an evening one commenter described as “breathtaking,” students and professionals in documentary courses at the Center for Electronic Journalism presented their films to a capacity crowd on Sunday June 3rd at the American University in Cairo’s Jameel Auditorium.
June 7, 2007
May 2007
Knight Fellow shares skills with Egyptian journalists
From training the latest form of online journalism to basic feature writing, veteran U.S. journalist and Knight Fellow Stephen Franklin has been keeping busy in his first three months in Cairo. A visiting member of the Center for Electronic Journalism’s staff, he is working in Egypt on behalf of the International Center for Journalism and its Knight International Fellowships.
May 24, 2007
“First Person Films”: Center to showcase 12 student-made documentaries
Blind musicians, Iraqi refugees, stressed-out emergency room doctors and men who iron clothes with their feet. These are a few of the subjects of compelling short documentary films produced this year by students at the Center for Electronic Journalism to be shown on Sunday, June 3 at 7:00 pm at the Jameel Center Auditorium in AUC's Greek Campus.
May 24, 2007
Darfur’s “Forgotten Crisis”
The Center for Electronic Journalism and the International Crisis Group recently co-sponsored a workshop on covering the Darfur conflict. The gathering brought together Arab journalists from across the region for a candid – and sometimes emotional – discussion of what one participant called the Arabs' “forgotten crisis.”
May 24, 2007
March 2007
Arab Media & Society Launched
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new online journal Arab Media & Society covering changing media, political and cultural landscape at www.arabmediasociety.org.
March 18, 2007
Pulitzer-prize Nominated Journalist Brings Experience to AUC
Knight Fellow Stephen Franklin teaches aspiring journalists the tools of the trade.
March 14, 2007
Adham Center graduate leads Al Jazeera English launch
When Sami Zeidan received his MA in television journalism from the Adham Center 8 years ago, he could hardly have expected to become the first face on Al Jazeera’s precedent-setting global English-language channel (AJE).
March 14, 2007
December 2006
Adham Center Receives Grant to Enhance Civil Society Collaboration
The Adham Center for Electronic Journalism has been awarded a three year grant worth nearly $1 million by the United States Agency for International Development to develop a news and information internet portal for Egyptian civil society.
December 7, 2006
Documentary Film Students Shoot Docks and Ships of the Desert
Wadi Degla, docks, and ships of the desert—that’s what students in Knight Fellow Craig Duff’s documentary film course have been out filming around Cairo. The course, which is part of the Adham Center’s Professional Development Program, offers students a unique opportunity to get their hands dirty and benefit from the experience of an award-winning documentary film-maker at the same time.
December 4, 2006
Knight Fellow Craig Duff Brings Journalistic Experience
When asked what fuels his interest in topics as diverse as the Arctic tundra, firefighters who battle forest fires and modern-day Egyptian artifact smuggling, Craig Duff simply shrugs and says with a little smile, "I guess I was just born curious."
December 4, 2006
September 2006
Mona El Tahawy ('92) Challenges the Arab Media's Red Lines
Writing for an Arab newspaper is like playing hopscotch in a minefield. From January 2004 until early this year I played my game of hopscotch in a weekly column on the opinion pages of Asharq al-Awsat, the London-based, Saudi-owned newspaper that is read across the Arab world. And then I stepped on a mine. Without warning or notice, fewer and fewer of my columns made it into print. Then my articles stopped appearing altogether. I had been banned.
September 17, 2006